Posted on 09/07/2023 4:41:36 AM PDT by thegagline
The director of information technology at Mar-a-Lago has agreed to cooperate with special counsel Jack Smith in a deal that will allow him to avoid criminal charges in the federal case over former President Donald Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents, a new court filing shows.
The witness — described in a Justice Department court filing dated Tuesday as “Trump Employee 4” and identified by several media outlets as Yuscil Taveras — had previously recanted “false testimony” in the classified documents case, after switching lawyers and learning that he had left himself exposed to possible perjury charges.
The special counsel’s office “immediately offered Trump Employee 4 a Non-Prosecution Agreement,” after he changed lawyers, his former defense attorney Stanley Woodward wrote in the court filing.
“Represented by [First Assistant Federal Public Defender], [Trump Employee 4] then entered into a cooperation agreement with the government and testified before the grand jury in the Southern District of Florida on July 20, 2023,” the filing states.
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Taveras provided Smith’s team with incriminating information that led to a July superseding indictment against the 77-year-old former president related to his alleged efforts to delete surveillance camera footage taken at Trump’s Palm Beach, Fla., club and residence, prosecutors have said.
Trump was charged with altering, destroying, mutilating, or concealing an object and corruptly altering, destroying, mutilating, or concealing a document, record, or other object in connection with his purported order to wipe the surveillance server.
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Taveras flipped after prosecutors raised concerns about a possible conflict of interest between him and Trump co-defendant Walt Nauta, who were both being represented by Woodward before the IT director struck his cooperation agreement with Smith.
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They might need to make stuff up to get a deal to get out of the show trials. I think Smith does not care if it is true.
You joined FreeRepublic in 2017.
What compelled you to seek us out and sign up?
Since your joining was after President Trump being inaugurated, did you come here to support his Presidency?
Or, was there another reason?
I think you are right about Smith. He seems to be the ends justify the means kind of person.
Oh, the guy who either lied before or is lying now... or maybe lied both times. Does he promise to tell the really, really, super duper really real truth in court?
He can avoid getting charged with a bogus charge by agreeing to memorize the DOJ script and recite it at the trial.
gagamaggot has been a never Trump troll since the day it signed up.
Yes, all you have to do is forget about that joking around stuff, they really did mean you should erase the tapes….right? In that case we wouldn’t have anything against you, but only if they weren’t joking. Know what we mean. Talk it over with your lawyer, I’m sure he can help you remember.
If I were Smith, I’m sure I would want my case to involve a liar to a Grand Jury. Washington attorneys know how serious it is to lie to a Grand Jury.
LO, yep they sure got Trump now.
The DOJ and DC system is pure as the driven snow, they can always be trusted not to lie, frame, coerce a person into false testimony.
Honestly we do not need trolling liberals here, why not hang out at sites like the Puffington Post?
And who are you?
Yep that one thing is always going to hang trump.
They were so sure about Russia, you can hear the doubt in them over everything else. The press is going through the motions hopping beyond hope some health issue comes up with both the leaders in the poll. The press really wants some change and change in both parties, one they cannot say out loud the other they have been over the top with for 6+ years.
Most of the press does not cover the actions within the GOP, you would think that is important.
so we will fiction instead of truth??????
Are you the FreeRepublic Gestapo? Do you go around asking FReepers for their papers if they don’t support your candidate? Disgusting.
Oh look, another one shows up.
Oh, poor sweet baby. 100% of people on this site aren’t in your cult? I’m sorry this is happening to you.
Oh look, another one shows up.
Just a couple posters with multiple identities playing off each other.
Funny, what I posted had no negative connotations, yet the responses by the few in this gaggle of trolls immediately assumed something negative.
Very telling...
You people are delusional. Yeah, asking someone for their papers isn't negative at all! You just want to make friends! LOL!
But we are getting away from the real topic here: Trump has proven yet again that he hires awful people, even down to the IT guys.
Oh my!
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